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Showing posts with label pronunciation. Show all posts

Mother Tongue Influence

OUR language is learned through mind imprints and imagery. These are the two factors that influence our flawless speaking abilities. We speak as we think. Thinking and speaking happen simultaneously without any other hindrance in the brain. Mind finds it easy to find the suitable word for the emotions. The words flow rapidly. The listener is awestruck at the shower of words and accepts your point of view in the argument. This happens when we are speaking in the language that is our mother tongue. The innate vocabulary gathered years over is ever ready to meet our argument levels in speaking

AS we are not the natives of English language, many problems occur in pronouncing the words or finding suitable words to match the emotion or the need of the argument. There the brain has to seek the help of mind to find the suitable word in mother tongue, and then translate it into the language recently learned. We do not have enough word bank to find the equivalent word in English. That results in hushed voices, confused facial expressions, fearful looks to end the situation and move away to a safer place to happily speak our mother tongue. 



SECOND impact is the ways of pronunciations in Indian English
The intonation impact
The pronunciation impact
Lastly, syntax impact - placement of subject, verb and object

Lastly, a new word for the day... KINGLISH
Kinglish is a language used by the kings to speak with other kings. THis language is originated in Central Louisiana. It is a royal dialect. So far I had never come across such a dialect. Hope to know it some day.

Tongue the Twister

Tongue is the main mourth part that helps in pronunciation. Speaking needs ingredients such as clarity and fluency. Our tongue needs practice to get acquainted to the new language, English. It has to familiarize itself for the words. The more we speak them the better results occur in speaking. We need continuous practice and it should be fun to do it. Every language has an interesting tool for this.
Tongue Twisters! Yes, once they were our best friends in teasing others - a harmless fun. Let's visit them now.

Tongue twisters are a great fun way to practice vocabulary. They help in clearing the mistakes in pronunciation and improve fluency. Repitition of one sound is known as alliteration. Tongue twisters have plenty of alliteration and help to improve accent as well
They have similar  but distinct phonemes (sounds)
e.g., s [s] and sh [ʃ]

She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.
For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore
Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.

Sometimes they combine two different alternation patterns

Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stopped Schwab's watch.
This twister won the grand prize in a contest in Games Magazine in 1979

This last one is a very commonly known one to all and had been playfully used in kindergarten years.
Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter



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